HELIOLITH

Stumbling upon these words, I cannot help but think that they are the same words the whole world is whispering, shouting, screaming at the United States as we continue the pre-emptive strategic decimation of countless people. The refrain is so loud in fact, so universal, that Bush cannot even address our friendly northern neighbour Canada’s Parliament for fear of ridicule and dissent. (via Cfarivar)

*(I would really like to find the poem Hecate quotes in the original Spanish saving my pennies since I can’t find it online at the moment)

I have found no better record of the least reported news from the ground in Iraq than Dahr Jamail’s Dispatches. From breaking news, to in-depth interviews, and photography found nowhere else, Jamail is a beacon of information in a savage war.
Information and education shall serve as a basis for all action. […]

“In the eyes of Muslims, American occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq has not led to democracy there, but only more chaos and suffering.” This is an excerpt from the Defence Science Board, an advisory panel to the Pentagon, as reported today by the BBC. You might think this is an overdue observation, and it […]

On his blog today, Kevin Sites posts an open letter to the Marine Unit he reported on when one Marine took an unarmed, wounded Iraqi’s life. It’s entitled “To the Devil Dogs of the 3.1″ He painstakingly articulates his efforts to maintain the dead-center unbiased voice of journalism. He laments “…I find […]

Update/clarification: I admire Saheli as she salutes the Marines for their honorable allegiance to the goverment, but I cannot myself find that same respect in their allegiance to a country so far from righteousness, so far from honor. I honor them as human beings, but their violent assault that is based on geo-political expansion and fallacious reason is a betrayal of humanity.

Apparently the marines stormed a mosque, killing 10 fighters (whom we have branded “insurgents” to villify them and uplift our cause), and wounding 5. Kevin Sites also reported that they were left there wounded, and implies that they were forgotten or neglected for some time. Later on, another marine […]

I am safe today, and I give thanks. Violence against the people in Fallujah does nothing to make me (or anyone) safer. Even if it did, violence is the weapon of the weak. I am following this war battle by battle now, and I am hoping daily for it to end. […]

Kevin Sites’ Blog last Wednesday talks about Fallujah
“Everything to the west is weapons free,” radios Staff Sgt. Sam Mortimer of Seattle, Washington. Weapons Free means the marines can shoot whatever they see — it’s all considered hostile.
I talked to my brother again - the one in the navy and he talked about defending their ship […]

What can I do? My tax dollars are funding the destruction of the Iraqi people. I didn’t vote for this shmuck and unfortunately, Kerry most likely wouldn’t have followed a radically different course of action in Iraq (although he would have been FAR better on nearly every other issue).
Now come reports […]

From Dahr Jamail at Znet comes this perspective on Fallujah: “Strong anti-government reactions have set in already as reports come in from Fallujah of bombed hospitals, high civilians casualties and denial of access to medical care. The political fallout could fall far beyond Iraq.” I am interested in discovering an international index of global […]